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Harts Stores (Hart's Family Center) was a regional
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chain in the midwestern
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History

In 1954, Big Bear Stores Co., Columbus, OH based supermarket chain purchased Harts Stores, a department store that was operating at the time in the basements of two Big Bears. Harts experienced rapid growth, as Big Bear often opened grocery stores along with a Harts Department Store in an adjacent space as well as many free-standing locations usually vacated by other department stores. At its peak in the late 1980s, there were a total of 29 Harts Stores, but towards the end of 1990, the company decided to favor the Big Bear Plus store format over the Harts general merchandise format and started to slowly shutter or convert all remaining Harts locations. In 1991, ten side-by-side Big Bear and Harts locations were converted to the Big Bear Plus format. By 1996, all Harts stores were either closed or converted to Big Bear Plus Stores. Big Bear was bought out by Penn Traffic in April 1989, and had closed all stores by early 2004.


See also

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Penn Traffic The Penn Traffic Company was founded in 1854 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, as a food service company for stagecoaches. It eventually became a general-merchandise department store but by the early 1960s had also returned to the food business through ...
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Big Bear Stores Big Bear Stores was a regional supermarket chain operating in Ohio and West Virginia (both states of the United States of America) between 1933 and 2004. The company was founded in Columbus, Ohio, and was headquartered there until its acquisition ...


References

* Dennis Vaugeois: ''The First Jews of North America: The Extraordinary Story of the Hart Family, 1760-1860.'' Montreal: Baraka Books, 2012 Defunct discount stores of the United States Retail companies established in 1954 Companies based in the Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area Retail companies disestablished in 1991 Defunct companies based in Ohio 1954 establishments in Ohio {{US-retail-company-stub